Genesis 31:9

and God takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

In Context

8If he says thus: The speckled are your hire, then all the flock bore speckled ones; and if he says thus: The striped are your hire, then all the flock bore striped;

10And it comes to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up my eyes and see in a dream, and behold, the male goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] striped, speckled, and spotted;

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Cross References

Genesis 30:39and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.

Genesis 31:16for all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, it [is] ours, and our children’s; and now, all that God has said to you—do.”

Esther 8:1On that day has King Ahasuerus given to Esther the queen the house of Haman, adversary of the Jews, and Mordecai has come in before the king, for Esther has declared what he [is] to her,

Proverbs 13:22A good man causes sons’ sons to inherit, || And the sinner’s wealth [is] laid up for the righteous.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:2-17

Jacob's Departure. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's… Read the whole commentary →

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